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...league utilitarian, heard from last week, is George Tidd, who runs the $523,000,000 American Gas and Electric system, in nine States from the Tennessee Valley to Lake Michigan. American Gas was put together in 1907 by Harrison Williams of North American Co., and Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, now retired, formerly head of Electric Bond & Share, which owns 19% of American Gas common. Tidd is an operating man who once indicated to a Washington investigation that a great deal of the finance in his own power system was over his head. Nevertheless, in 1933 he showed what he thought...
...American Boy's most famed fiction character is Marcus Aurelius Fortunatus Tidd, who first appeared in 1913 while his creator, Clarence Budington Kelland, was managing editor. A Mark Tidd serial is still running in the magazine. Mark Tidd...
Water, Bananas. First reply to the Sackett speech from a Power man was by George N. Tidd, president of American Gas & Electric Co. He arose in Berlin to thank the Ambassador for calling public attention (and public sympathy, perhaps) to the high cost of distributing Power. By way of adroit analogy he mentioned water, which costs nothing at its source, and bananas. "The cost of the banana on the tree is infinitesimal, yet by the time it has been gathered and transported the ratio is nearer 1,500 than...
...CRIMSON takes great pleasure in announcing the election of Hollis Tidd Gleason of Jamaica Plain, Mass., Karl Springer Cate of Boston, Mass., and Thomas Samuel Green of Worcester, Mass., of the Sophomore class; and Edmund Neville Bennett of Weston, Mass., and George Putnam, Jr., of Boston, Mass., of the Freshman class, as regular editors...